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Every Day is Earth Day

For Students K - 2nd
For this environment worksheet, students read a poem called "Every Day is Earth Day." Students also write about how they can help on Earth Day.
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Journeys

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students write a story using their journey to school as the setting. In groups, they discuss their experiences and browse through books to get ideas for their story. They practice using a thesaurus to find new verbs or adjectives they...
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THE FLOW OF MUSIC AND POETRY

For Teachers K - 6th
Students describe their feelings through writing, art or music.
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Honoring Our Veterans Through Poetry Prewriting

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars learn about the origins of holidays and cultural practices in the United States
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Using Music and Poetry to Teach Science

For Teachers 1st - Higher Ed
Students learn and review science concepts through creative activities and songs.
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Blooming Up: Teaching the Art of Questioning

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students, through demonstration and example, write and answer questions at different levels of Bloom's taxonomy.
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Teaching the Hindu-Buddhist Tradition in East Asian Culture Through Asian Literature and Film

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore various intellectual traditions which dominate human history through a variety of contemporary pieces of literature which exemplify the traditions. Biblical monotheism, Greek rationalism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism...
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Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students participate in various activities which address Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. For this holiday lesson, students are exposed to Hebrew songs and construct Haiku poems about Yom Kippur.
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Literature

For Teachers K
Students listen and respond to poems about rain. Then they review the continent of Asia and the country of Japan. They listen to a Japanese folktale about a peach boy. Next they listen to a story from Germany about musicians.
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We're Going to the Zoo!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars write and publish a poem as part of a class poetry collection after analyzing the poetic structures of haiku, limericks, sound poems and free verse. After viewing a multimedia demonstration of the poetic structures, and...
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Listening for Tone

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students read and listen to various poems as they are read by different readers using different tones. They read "Jabberwocky" and in groups, determine what they think the nonsense words in the poem mean. The groups compare thier ideas...
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Flowers, Flowers, Flowers...A Visit with Georgia O'Keeffe

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students analyze, discuss, and research Georgia O'Keeffe and her flower paintings. They select a flower to paint and create a watercolor painting in the style of Georgia O'Keeffe. Students compose a poem describing their painting.
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The Poet's Message-"The Colored Soldier" by Langston Hughes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars analyze the poem, "The Colored Soldier" by Langston Hughes to gain a greater experience of how poets use language to create meaning, influence thinking and thus become pioneers of change in American society. They work on...
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October's Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils listen to poetry about crocodiles. After discussing the relationship between humans and crocodiles, they make a list of ways humans hurt crocodiles and then write Prelutsky's poem from the crocodile perspective.
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Do They Rhyme?

For Teachers K
Students pick out words that rhyme. In this lesson on rhyme, students listen to the teacher read the poem "My Robot Does My Homework" by Kenn Nesbitt and pick out words that rhyme.
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Integrating Printmaking and Literature: A high school art curriculum

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students integrate techniques in printmaking with readings in poetry and literature. They read various pieces of student literature and poetry, and create prints using various printmaking techniques.
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Haiku - Poetry of the Samurai Warrior

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers research the Samurai and their Haiku Writings. Students use internet research to gather information about the ancient Japanese Samurai. The middle schoolers then create individual Haiku writings, and a cultural day is...
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Shared Reading

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders grasp the concept of reading with expression. They express words through their voice. Students discover expressive words when reading a poem or book. They read A Light in the Attic by Shel Siverstein.
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The Spider and the Fly

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students incorporate the knowledge they learned about spiders on the ISM Web site, Spider Collection, and other Web sites they viewed on spiders to write a rhyming poem (possibly choosing a poem type illustrated here) about an aspect of...
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Incident

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners gain insight into human behavior from the study of literature. They read a poem and respond by creating a poem of their own. After a lecture/demo, students utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to help them compose an...
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So You Want to Be A Poet?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders study different types of poetry and then write examples in this unit. They write, among others, free verse, Diamante, Clerihew, and color poems.
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Tongue Twisters

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read the poem, "Betty Botter" and give their opinion of it. They discover what a tongue twister is and read the poem out loud together. Then as a class they read "Peter Piper" and discuss the similarities of the two poems.
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30 Days Hath September

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders memorize the poem, Thirty Days Hath September in preparing for learning about the number of days in the months and year. Once memorized, they practice using the calendar to count the number of days in different problems.
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Night Sounds

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars listen and discuss the sounds they heard at night. They write a class poem about those sounds at night. They keep a chart on their desk for ideas. The poem is read aloud to the class when it is finished.

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